Gillian Anderson

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Gillian Anderson (2017)

Gillian Leigh Anderson , OBE [ ˈdʒɪljən ] (born August 9, 1968 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American actress , film director , screenwriter , activist and author . She was awarded the Golden Globe and Emmy Awards , among others , and gained great fame through her role as FBI agent Dana Scully in the US television series The X-Files - The FBI's Scary Cases .

life and career

actress

Gillian Anderson (2004)

Prior to her career as a series actress, Gillian Anderson waited and played a role in the play Absent Friends , for which she received the Theater World Award for Best Young Actress . After this success, her next project was The Turning , but it flopped.

After a guest appearance on the US television series Class of '96 in 1992, she finally received her first major television role: the lead role as special agent Dana Scully in the X-Files series by Chris Carter . With her series partner, David Duchovny , she had her big international breakthrough as an actress. Originally the role was to be cast with a blonde woman, but Carter was eventually convinced by Anderson's agents and insisted on the red-haired actress.

Her pregnancy was also a source of trouble, and the question of Anderson's release arose. However, Carter insisted on her continued employment and built pregnancy into the role. The kidnapping, which was initially supposed to serve as a stopgap solution to explain the short-term absence of the leading actress, had a major impact on the series. Carter himself often said that the full story only developed gradually. Without the pregnancy, which was first seen as a disability, the series would have taken a completely different course.

Anderson played Dana Scully for nine years in almost all of the 202 episodes, as well as in the films X-Files - The Movie (1998) and The X-Files - Beyond Truth (2008) and received numerous awards for her performance. In addition to this television engagement, she starred in other movies, including The Mighty - Together They Are Strong (1998), Chicago Cab (1998), Live and Love in LA (1998), Bellomont House (2000).

After the preliminary end of the X-Files series , Anderson moved to London . There she made the films The Mighty Celt (2005) and A Cock and Bull Story (2005) , among others . She also turned back to the theater, starring in What the Night is for and The sweetest Swing in Baseball by Rebecca Gilman in London's West End .

Earned much praise Anderson for her portrayal of Lady Dedlock in the multi-part BBC - film adaptation of Charles Dickens -Romans Bleak House from 2005. She has both the Emmy and the Golden Globe nominated. This was followed by a role in The Last King of Scotland (2006) alongside the Oscar- winning Forest Whitaker and a leading role in the revenge thriller Straightheads (2007).

In 2008 Anderson was initially back as Dana Scully , who was now working as a doctor in the hospital, in the X-Files - Beyond the Truth in the cinema. She then appeared in the comedy New York for Beginners (2008) on the side of Simon Pegg , Kirsten Dunst and Jeff Bridges .

In the early summer of 2009, Anderson played again in London theater. She took on the role of Nora in a new version of the play A Doll's House (German title: Nora or Ein Puppenheim ) by Henrik Ibsen in the Donmar Warehouse .

In June 2009 her new film, the satire Boogie Woogie premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival . In it, she plays alongside Christopher Lee , Heather Graham and Charlotte Rampling . She then had a role in the Channel 4 film adaptation of William Boyd's acclaimed novel Any Human Heart , which aired in four parts in the winter of 2010.

In the spring of 2011 she appeared in the multi-part, BBC- produced television miniseries The Crimson Petal and the White . In the film adaptation of Michel Faber 's novel of the same name from 2002, she played the role of Mrs. Castaway , a brothel owner in London in the 1870s.

Since 2013 she has played the lead role of Stella Gibson in the BBC Two crime series The Fall - Death in Belfast alongside Jamie Dornan .

In the summer of 2014 she stood next to Ben Foster and Vanessa Kirby in the Young Vic Theater as Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams ' end of the line longing on stage. For her performance, she was awarded the London Evening Standard Theater Award - Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress in the same year .

For the BBC Radio 4 series A History of Ideas , Anderson took on the role of spokesperson in various animated videos that presented various philosophical ideas alongside Harry Shearer .

On June 8, 2015, filming began for six new episodes of the X-Files series , in which Anderson slips back into the role of Dana Scully. The new episodes began broadcasting on Fox on January 24, 2016.

In 2016, Anderson was honored with the OBE for her performance in acting as she is not a British citizen.

In 2019 she received her third nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award .

Anderson was usually dubbed by Franziska Pigulla . She voiced the actress in The X-Files, among others . In the series The Fall - Death in Belfast she is voiced by Elisabeth Günther .

Author

In 1999, she wrote a foreword for the book Girl Boss: Running the Show Like the Big Chicks: Entrepreneurial Skills, Stories, and Encouragement for Modern Girls by Stacy Kravetz.

From time to time Anderson writes essays for various publications such as B. in a commentary for Yahoo TV, the book Dear Me: More Letters to My Sixteen Year Old Self or for the British teacher - journal TES .

In 2014 she published her first novel, A Vision of Fire , written in collaboration with Jeff Rovin , which is the first part of a trilogy . On December 8, 2015, the second part of the “Earth End” saga trilogy with the title “A Dream of Ice” was released, which was again created in collaboration with Rovin. The third and final part of the trilogy was released on September 13, 2016 with “The Sound of Seas”. In May 2016 Anderson announced in an interview with the British Observer that a television series - adaptation is planned the series.

Together with the English journalist Jennifer Nadel, she wrote We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere (title of the German publication: Wir - A Manifesto for Women Who Want More from Life), which was presented in October 2016 and published in March 2017.

Director

In the seventh season of the X-Files , which was produced in 1999, Gillian Anderson got the opportunity to write a script for the episode Moments ( All Things ) and to direct it. She was, alongside Michelle MacLaren , the second woman to direct the series.

On February 6, 2015, the short film The Departure premiered on the Guardian's website. It was directed by Anderson from a script by Andrew O'Hagan and produced as part of YV Shorts . These are short films inspired by plays performed at the Young Vic Theater. Anderson takes on the role of Blanche DuBois again in The Departure . The film is a prequel to the play Endstation Sehnsucht , which takes place in the time shortly before Blanche moves to her sister Stella in New Orleans in the play .

Gillian Anderson has had the rights to adapt the film to Elizabeth Rosner's novel The Speed ​​of Light for many years , for which she not only wrote the script but also intended to direct.

Musical collaborations

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works (with Max Richter )
  CH 89 02/05/2017 (1 week)
  UK 70 02/09/2017 (1 week)
Singles
Extremis (with HAL)
  UK 23 05/24/1997 (1 week)

As part of her moderation work for the BBC documentary Future Fantastic , she collaborated with the English electronica project HAL, from which the single Extremis emerged , which was in the top 25 of the UK charts in May 1997. Anderson also unveiled a double CD - Compilation with different ambient and trance songs together, which was published on 2 June 1997th

In 2017 she was heard on the piece The Waves: Tuesday by Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works by Max Richter , in which she reads Virginia Woolf's suicide note.

On the film music of the same name, composed by PJ Harvey and published in 2019, for a theater adaptation of the Noël Coward Theater of the classic film All about Eve (director: Ivo van Hove ), she can be heard as the interpreter of The Sandman .

Personal

While filming the X-Files: The FBI's Creepy Cases , Anderson met art director Errol Clyde Klotz, whom she married in 1994. Their daughter, Piper Maru, was born that same year. The 15th episode of the third season of the X-Files is named after her in the original title (Piper Maru) . In 1997, Anderson and Klotz separated.

Anderson was married to Julian Ozanne, a freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker , in 2004 . The couple separated in April 2006.

She has two sons with the English businessman Mark Griffith.

engagement

Gillian Anderson is involved in a variety of charitable causes.

Anderson's younger brother, Aaron, was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis . Anderson used her notoriety to raise awareness of the disease and became an Honorary Spokesperson for the US Neurofibromatosis Network NF. Inc. She has been fundraising for research into the disease since the 1990s and addressed the United States Congress on the subject in 1996 .

In 2008 she and others founded the organization South African Youth Education for Sustainability (SA-YES), which supports children and young people in South Africa.

Among other things, she has been a supporter of the human rights organization Survival International since 2010 . Among other things, she played in the play We Are One, the proceeds of which went to the organization.

In January 2015, she appeared on Mark Watson's 27-hour Telethon , which raised money for Comic Relief .

Filmography (selection)

Gillian Anderson (2008)

Movies

TV Shows

further activities

Other works (selection)

theatre

  • 1991: Absent Friends - Manhattan Theater Club, New York City
  • 1992: The Philanthropist - Long Wharf Theater, New Haven
  • 1999: The Vagina Monologues (London)
  • 2000: The Vagina Monologues (Los Angeles)
  • 2002: What The Night Is For - Comedy Theater, London
  • 2004: The Sweetest Swing in Baseball - Royal Court Theater , London
  • 2009: A Doll's House - Donmar Warehouse, London
  • 2010: We Are One: A celebration of tribal peoples - Apollo Theater , London
  • 2014: End of the line yearning - Young Vic Theater, London
  • 2016: End Stop Longing - St. Ann's Warehouse, New York City
  • 2019: All About Eva - Noël Coward Theater, London

Audio productions

Voiceover

  • 1996: Why Planes Go Down (also moderation)
  • 1996: Future Fantastic (also moderation)
  • 1996: Spies Above
  • 2010: No Pressure (short film)
  • 2011: Uncontacted Tribes (for Survival International)
  • 2014: A History of Ideas
  • 2014: Nissan Leaf Thanks a Billion (commercial)
  • 2014: Widowmaker ( Documentation )

Audio books

Motion capture

  • 2015: Star Citizen Motion Capture for the single player part Squadron 42, incl. Star Citizen voice

Awards

theatre

  • 1991: Theater World Award - Absent Friends
  • 2003: What's on stage Theater Goers Award
  • 2014: London Evening Standard Theater Award - Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress

watch TV

Movie

Others

  • 1996: 1st place Sexiest Woman in the World - FHM
  • 1997: 3rd place Sexiest Woman in the World - FHM
  • 1997: 1st place in the “50 most beautiful people in the world” by People magazine
  • 1997: 9th place in "Celebrity Sleuth 25 Sexiest Women"
  • 1997: Voted the most erotic woman on German television by TV Spielfilm .
  • 1998: 10th Sexiest Woman in the World - FHM
  • 1999: 15th place Sexiest Woman in the World - FHM
  • 1999: # 48 Maxim's 50 Sexiest Women
  • 2000: 23rd place, Sexiest Woman in the World - FHM
  • 2001: 81st place, Sexiest Woman in the World - FHM
  • 2001: 68th place in FHM-USA's 100 Sexiest Women
  • 2002: 64th place in FHM-USA's 100 Sexiest Women
  • 2015: 23rd place AfterEllen Hot 100
  • 2018: Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .

“Gillian Anderson, who plays the agent Scully in the US science fiction series X-Files , is one of the most famous television stars of the 1990s. Anderson was voted the Sexiest Woman in the World in 1996 by 10,000 FHM Magazine readers . She gets $ 58,000 for each episode and signed a contract for $ 6.6 million in June 1997. "

- Guinness Book of Records

literature

  • 1999: Girl Boss: Running the Show Like the Big Chicks: Entrepreneurial Skills, Stories, and Encouragement for Modern Girls by Stacy Kravitz (preface). GirlPress. ISBN 978-0-9659754-2-1
  • 2014: A Vision of Fire: Book 1 of The EarthEnd Saga (with Jeff Rovin ). Simon & Schuster / Simon451. ISBN 978-1-4767-7652-1
  • 2016: A Dream of Ice: Book 2 of The EarthEnd Saga (with Jeff Rovin). Simon & Schuster / Simon451. ISBN 978-1-4767-7655-2
  • 2016: The Sound of Seas: Book 3 of The EarthEnd Saga (with Jeff Rovin). Simon & Schuster / Simon451. ISBN 978-1-4767-7659-0
  • 2017: We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere (together with Jennifer Nadel ). Atria Books. ISBN 978-1-5011-2627-7
    German version We - a manifesto for women who want more from life . Integral Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7787-9265-0

Web links

Commons : Gillian Anderson  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A Doll's House. (No longer available online.) Donmar Warehouse Theater, archived from the original on December 15, 2010 ; accessed on May 20, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.donmarwarehouse.com
  2. ^ Any Human Heart. Channel 4, accessed April 24, 2011 .
  3. ↑ William Boyd - A Man's Heart. Amazon.de, accessed April 25, 2011 .
  4. ↑ The Crimson Petal And The White - Press release. BBC, March 14, 2011, accessed April 24, 2011 .
  5. ^ Evening Standard Theater Awards 2014: Tom Hiddleston and Gillian Anderson win best actor and actress at glittering London awards. Evening Standard, December 1, 2014, accessed December 1, 2014 .
  6. ^ Simpsons star to voice YouTube videos for Radio 4 philosophy series. November 7, 2014, accessed February 15, 2015 .
  7. ^ The X-Files: Production of the Revival started. June 8, 2015, accessed June 8, 2015 .
  8. ↑ [1]
  9. ↑ Olivier Awards: Gillian Anderson Scores 3rd Nomination With 'All About Eve' - Complete List. Deadline Awards, March 5, 2019, accessed April 23, 2019 .
  10. ↑ The Official Gillian Anderson Website - Archive - Transcripts Girlboss Foreword. The Official Gillian Anderson Website, accessed February 15, 2015 .
  11. ↑ 'The Fall': Gillian Anderson Profiles Her Character Stella Gibson. Yahoo.tv, accessed March 11, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Mrs. Babcock. (No longer available online.) Tes.co.uk, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 11, 2015 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tes.co.uk
  13. ^ "The X-Files" star Gillian Anderson writes science fiction novel. January 15, 2014, accessed December 1, 2014 .
  14. ↑ 13 Ways of Looking at Gillian Anderson. May 2, 2016, accessed November 7, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Gillian Anderson Has Written An Empowering Manifesto For Young Women. October 31, 2016, accessed November 7, 2016 .
  16. ↑ The Departure: a short film starring Gillian Anderson - video. The Guardian, February 6, 2015, accessed February 15, 2015 .
  17. ↑ Gillian Anderson on therapy, rebellion and 'being weird'. The Guardian, February 8, 2015, accessed February 15, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Chart sources: Switzerland - Great Britain
  19. ↑ UK1
  20. ↑ Promotional Interview with Gillian Anderson and HAL by Sally Stratton March 1997. The official Gillian Anderson website, accessed April 23, 2019 .
  21. ^ Various - Future: A Journey Through The Electronic Underground. discogs.com, accessed April 23, 2019 .
  22. ↑ MAX RICHTER Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works. deutschegrammophon.com, accessed on April 23, 2019 (English).
  23. ↑ PJ Harvey shares new songs "The Moth" and "Descending". Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Ngaire E. Genge: The X Files - How It Really Was. Heyne Books, 1997, p. 179.
  25. ^ Charities. The Official Gillian Anderson Website, accessed February 15, 2015 .
  26. ↑ Other Ways to Give. (No longer available online.) NF Inc., archived from the original on February 25, 2015 ; accessed on February 15, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nfnetwork.org
  27. ↑ Who we are - UK BOARD. (No longer available online.) South African Youth Education for Sustainability (SA-YES), archived from the original on February 12, 2015 ; accessed on February 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sa-yes.com
  28. ↑ Stars line up in West End to celebrate tribal peoples. Survival International, March 9, 2010, accessed April 24, 2011 .
  29. ↑ A Streetcar Named Desire. Young Vic Theater, December 1, 2014, accessed December 1, 2014 .
  30. ↑ Mark Brown: Gillian Anderson to star in West End version of All About Eve. September 21, 2018, accessed October 27, 2018 .
  31. ↑ Uncontacted Tribes. Survival International, accessed March 11, 2015 .
  32. ↑ Thanks a Billion. Nissan UK, accessed March 11, 2015 .
  33. ↑ RomaFictionFest 2012 partners with BBC Worldwide for exclusive day of events. Evening Standard, September 21, 2012, accessed December 1, 2014 .
  34. ^ Gillian Anderson The Webby Awards. Webby Awards, May 16, 2017, accessed April 23, 2019 .
  35. ↑ The Results Are In! It's the 2015 AfterEllen Hot 100 - AfterEllen. In: AfterEllen. September 1, 2015, Retrieved May 22, 2016 (American English).
  36. ↑ Gillian Anderson receives Hollywood star . In: news.ORF.at . December 21, 2017 ( online [accessed December 21, 2017]).
  37. ↑ Excerpt from the "Guinness Book of Records 1999" (Guinness Verlag)
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Gillian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderson, Gillian Leigh (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress, film director, screenwriter and singer
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois, United States